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Today the parts of the world that never used internet are now becoming connected to the world today.

Amazing infographic that details the history of social networking in a time line fashion

This site explains how companies are exporting more of their work. Also states that in recent studies, over 2 million workers in the U.S have lost their jobs due to business closures.

This site explains how globalization affects tax design with globalization tighten financial pressures on the government.

This site tells you about how globalization restrains the government by inducing increased budgetary pressure.

How people multi-task with technology

What did the study find? How many people were in the study and from where did these people originate? Are there any conflicting studies?

There was a study done to see how many people use their smartphone while watching television. In the US there are 40% who do so on a daily basis, compared to as 12% of tablet users and 13% of smartphone owners say they have never done so. 45% search unrelated info on the web, 42% are checking social networking sites, and fewer than 20% are searching related ads they've seen on TV. While, I just researched some more related to this topic, I came to realize this results are correct and accurate.

The evolution of mobile hone devices

Interesting information about the evolution of Social Media/Netorking

This is an image that shows that mobile connectivity is useful during conferences. People get to search what others are saying to get a more basic, general idea. While others are talking about topics people can go onto their mobile device and see how accurate it is and have stuff to say to back it up

On Tuesday morning, January 21, the world awoke to nine new words on the home page of Google Inc., purveyor of the most popular search engine on the Web: "New! Take your search further. Take a Google Tour." The pitch, linked to a demo of the site's often overlooked tools and services, stayed up for 14 days and then disappeared. To most reasonable people, the fleeting house ad seemed inconsequential. But imagine that you're unreasonable. For a moment, try to think like a Google engineer -- which pretty much requires being both insanely passionate about delivering the best search results and obsessive about how you do that. If you're a Google engineer, you know that those nine words comprised about 120 bytes of data, enough to slow download time for users with modems by 20 to 50 milliseconds. You can estimate the stress that 120 bytes, times millions of searches per minute, put on Google's 10,000 servers. On the other hand, you can also measure precisely how many visitors took the tour, how many of those downloaded the Google Toolbar, and how many clicked through for the first time to Google News. This is what it's like inside Google. It is a joint founded by geeks and run by geeks. It is a collection of 650 really smart people who are almost frighteningly single-minded. "These are people who think they are creating something that's the best in the world," says Peter Norvig, a Google engineering director. "And that product is changing people's lives." Geeks are different from the rest of us, so it's no surprise that they've created a different sort of company. Google is, in fact, their dream house. It also happens to be among the best-run

Info on the expansion of google company

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This is a video on youtube to help us get an idea about M&U.

2nd steroid for M&U instant messaging, wikipedia source.

Helpful page describing Virtual Communication

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4th steroid. More on about DreamWorks and getting started with video conferencing. Gives us an idea on how it got started, who uses it, and what all had to b put into it to get it started